Re: Dar and OS X xattrs: Willing to help

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Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
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| On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Denis Corbin wrote:
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|> I agree with this way of doing, but to avoid loop problem or  limitations
|> (like a read-only filesystem), the convertion from ACL to text must be
|> done in memory, no temporary file must be used.
|
|
| Yes, that's perfectly possible, none of the acl_*() functions require  a
| temp file. Probably I would just modify the OSX_EA_SUPPORT
| implementations of my_l*xattr() so that they pretend as if ACLs were  a
| real xattr.

Yes, this is not a bad idea, as it would gather at the same place all
that concerns MacOS X adaptation for EA support.

|
| However, some people on #opendarwin are now telling me that the ACL
| support on Mac OS X is a bit flaky. I've already experienced a  strange
| bug where enabling ACLs on my filesystem causes xattrs to not  work
| properly. So, given that I can't really use ACLs myself, and  that very
| few other Mac users actually use them either, I don't have  motivation
| to work on supporting them at this time. Apple is expected  to come out
| with a fairly large bugfix release (10.4.3) reasonably  soon; if it
| fixes the ACL issues I'll revisit this.

I understand. Well, you will be welcome at anytime you wish to "revisit"
this issue. ;-)

|
| Thanks again for all your work on dar, now I have to go create my new
| backup strategy :-)

Yep, you can have a look at the many scripts in doc/samples, there is
also SARAB, Kdar, daromizer and some other useful tools around dar that
may match your needs. Else you have still the possibility to make your
own scripts or DCF files. If you have any problem, feel free to post
your question on dar-support mailing-list, you will have an answer.

|
| Dave

Cheers,
Denis.
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